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somebody deleted my account from system: how to get it back

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vavinashraju
vavinashraju Original post #1
Jul 18, 2007 at 12:19 PM
hi
somebody deleted my account from the system by typing control userpasswords2 in the run then created another account with the same name

is there anyway to get back the old account.....i have lots of files in my documents of my old account ......

i tried restoring the system but i was not able to restore as tgere was no restore points
in the documents and setting folder the old accounts my document folder is there but it is not accessible.....
please help me out i will be waiting for ur reply
S
Jul 18, 2007 at 1:03 PM
To retrieve the old documents, you dont need to retrieve the old account. You can login with administrator priviledges, go to Security properties of the folder and regain control.

Arun
vavinashraju
Jul 18, 2007 at 6:55 PM
thanks for the reply .....i will try and give u the reply later